Patrice Evra has seen his international career dip to an all-time low after being caught on camera wiping his backside with teammate Mathieu Valbuena's shirt. Evra has had a rough twelve months after seeing his club career with Manchester United finally questioned, and now his international popularity has crashed to an all time low.

Patrice Evra's popularity in France has sunk either further after he was caught on camera wiping his arse with Mathieu Valbuena's shirt.

Paris magazine, Le 10 Sport, said: "It was disgusting! But this gesture shows above all a real lack of respect towards the blue of France and all that it stands for.

What is value for money? by Richard B. As much as I like weekends, especially when the weather promotes the use of a BBQ and a cool box in the garden, it does come with an overarching pain in the backside called money. Monday through Friday is normally an exercise in routine and monotony; I [...]

In anticipation of Euro 12, Dutch supermarket chain C1000 produced a music video featuring stars of the Netherlands team and hundreds of the little birdie toys they're offering fans/potential shoppers.

During the video, you'll see Nigel De Jong's teammates sticking the orange toys to his head, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar almost eating one (but it wasn't made of grass, so he didn't), someone putting three on a kebab stick and grilling them, plus Arjen Robben sticking them to his backside and bending over.

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Shakhtar Donetsk won the Ukrainian Premier League again earlier in the week, with a victory over Oleksandria on the final day of the season putting them four points clear of Dynamo Kiev at the summit. As is the convention with these kind of things, a couple of the Shakhtar players drenched coach Mircea Lucescu with the nearest available liquid a couple of bottles of water though, rather than enter into the spirit of the occasion, Lucescu stood there with a face like a slapped backside, clearly baffled and angered by the whole ordeal.

What a difference a week makes in football, talk about being brought back down to earth with a bump from flying high after the Nou Camp and beating QPR 6-1 last Sunday!.
I said in my match preview that with confidence flowing through our squad, I felt confident in Chelsea getting the three points because as far as finishing in the top four was concerned, Tonight was litterally all or nothing.

It took some harsh words at half-time from manager Owen Coyle but it did the trick and Bolton secured a vital three points away to struggling Aston Villa on Tuesday night.
The Trotters came from a goal behind in the West Midlands and, having dragged Villa into the relegation fight, now sit just one point off safety with a game in hand over their rivals at the bottom of the Premier League table.

One Liverpool supporter managed to irk Norwich fans and the police in equal measure during Saturday's match. The well-oiled fan ran onto the Carrow Road pitch to celebrate Luis Suarez's hat-trick goal, before bowing down before the Uruguayan. He made a lewd gesture towards the Canaries faithful before finding himself being led away by police.

Antonio Cassano returned to Milan's starting XI after suffering a stroke and undergoing heart surgery in November and uncertainty as to whether he would ever play again. And not only did Cassano score the first goal in Milan's 4-0 win over Siena and set up two others, but he also gave Zlatan Ibrahimovic a friendly kick in the backside.

Rory Delap can consider himself very lucky that this tactic hasn't been adopted by teams up and down the country. Tottenham quelled the threat posed by Morten Gamst Pedersen's long throw during today's match against Blackburn by getting their fans to touch his backside during his run-up. The statistics for Blackburn's shots on goal suggest [.

If you don't like John Terry, then prepare to root for Chelsea in the Champions League final. The Chelsea captain was shown a straight red card after giving Alexis Sanchez a knee to the backside in the 37th minute of their Champions League semifinal second leg match against Barcelona. Though it pushed Chelsea towards certain doom, the rest of the team kept their focus and beat Barcelona to earn a place in the final.

Chelsea advanced to the Champions League final after a second-leg match against Barcelona that can only be described as bananas. Absolute bananas. Though Chelsea won on a 3-2 aggregate score, the second leg finished 2-2, which means there is really just one question left for us to ask.

A mere two minutes after Barcelona's barrage of shots resulted in the first goal of their Champions League second leg against Chelsea, John Terry decided to give Alexis Sanchez a knee up the backside and was promptly shown a red card.

You can debate whether Terry deserved to be sent off instead of just shown a yellow for his act, but one way to help ensure you don't get sent off for something stupid is by, you know, not doing something stupid.

1. Daniel Zitka (Anderlecht) Anderlecht keeper Daniel Zitka was on his way to hospital with a broken leg when one clumsy stretcher bearer stumbled and went head-first into the turf. The clown then had the cheek to milk his own injury for all it was worth! 2. Internacional v Confianca After a less then comfortable [.

We're not sure where or when this video comes from, but we thought you'd enjoy it. This team's new boy is still getting to grips with the training regime at the club. He doesn't know the quirks and preferences of the coach yet. So when he sees other members of the team bizarrely doing sit-ups [...]

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By THOMAS FLOYD

It's a bit premature to say Didier Drogba's days at Stamford Bridge are numbered. At least the striker thinks so.

Drogba said Wednesday that he would like to stay with Chelsea for "as long as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VIt0CQbFaU Did you happen to catch the league game in Romania between Concordia Chijana and Visalani on Saturday night? If not, you missed out primarily on a masterclass of calamitous keeping that makes Massimo Taibi's time at Manchester United look like a reign of consummate composure.

This is a huge blow to Brazil's LOC for the World Cup as their chairman Ricardo Texeira quit Monday as the head of the Brazilian Football Federation and the 2014 World Cup organising committee on health grounds.

Brazil have in the past few weeks come under intense scutiny by FIFA for what the football body considers falling behind on major projects.

LFC Lad: That Fellani's an idiot... and people think my hairdo's bad?!The Merseyside Derby? On a Tuesday night? Yes please. The Red and Blue side of Liverpool both line up on Tuesday evening after the fixture had to be moved due to the Carling Cup. Liverpool are having a dismal time in the league at the moment whilst Everton as usual have revived their second half of the season.

Bad news out of Commerce City today as Anthony Wallace ripped his Achilles in training yesterday and he'll miss 6-9 months. That means if he takes exactly 6 months and no longer he can get back for the final 7 games. Realistically he'll be back closer to the final 2 games, at which point hopefully the Rapids will be in their playoff push.

By Justin Shaffer - SEATTLE, WA (Mar 5, 2012) US Soccer Players -- Over the weekend, FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke triggered a very public back and forth with Brazil over the current state of readiness for the 2014 World Cup, going so far as to say that Brazil needed a "kick up the backside". Valcke's statements touched on the slow pace of Brazil's infrastructure improvements, stadium construction delays, and FIFA's demands for changes in.

See, the problem with naming your child after a famous athlete is it might inspire him to one day become like that athlete, and in the process soil your hero's name.

Take, for instance, Michel Platini born Michel Platini Ferreira Mesquita. Named after the man ticking off Big Europe and helping clubs like APOEL through to the Champions League kayos (he was also reportedly a half decent footballer once as well), the homeless man's replica is famous for his name and now infamous for booting an opponent up the backside, sparking a brawl in a friendly while playing for CSKA Sofia against Dinamo Bucharest last week.

Luis Suarez has been back in action for twenty-five minutes, and he's already lucky he hasn't been banned two or four or seventeen more times. In related news, the buildup to a match against Manchester United is always so very much fun...

* In amongst all the excitement over Kenny Dalglish reminding the world that the club never thought Suarez' ban was an entirely appropriate punishment, following Monday's match there was an even more ridiculous Suarez b-plot that popped up when Wayne Rooney hopped on Twitter to suggest that the Liverpool striker should be banned for his mis-timed kick to Scott Parker's midriff.

Luis Suarez made his Liverpool comeback last night following his eight-match ban during last night's 0-0 draw with Tottenham. You can imagine that the Uruguayan's final instructions before coming on as a substitute probably didn't go: "Barge over the guy with the Afro and then kick someone in the stomach.

Luis Suarez made his Liverpool comeback last night following his eight-match ban during last night's 0-0 draw with Tottenham. You can imagine that the Uruguayan's final instructions before coming on as a substitute probably didn't go: "Barge over the guy with the Afro and then kick someone in the stomach.

After Saturday's capitulation to lowly Bolton at the Reebok 3-1, Kenny Dalglish openly criticised his players for their attitude and performance in the defeat, even claiming that heads will roll after that display.
Well Kenny, it was an abject display by the team, a team you largely assembled yourself.

Glen's in good Kompany terrible tackle by soccermr With a huge degree of inevitability following Vincent Kompany's red card at the weekend, a Manchester City was on the receiving end of a two-footed challenge in last night's match against Liverpool. And it went unpunished. Glen Johnson dived into a challenge with Joleon Lescott.

A lovely little brouhaha is building in England about the half-a-million new commemorative fifty-pence pieces in circulation, with an explanation of offside on the backside of the queen's image. According to a story in this morning's Guardian, a well-known referee...

Hold on tight and hold your nose Lifting a stretcher should not be one of life's more complicated tasks, and yet it catches out hapless stretcher bearers on a surprisingly regular basis. This incident comes Brazil and the match between Internacional and Confianca. The injured player should have known he was in for a rough [.

A few stories in the papers already covering this one, but the extent at which Roberto Mancini seems to allow Mario Balotelli to continuously get away with things seems to quite surprise me considering Mancini is supposed to be a very tough, disciplined manager. The story is that Mancini is allowing Balotelli to continue with his smoking habit, stating that he has about 5 or 6 cigarettes every day.

Frank Lampard was strolling past team-mate Fernando Torres to take his place on the Chelsea bench during last night's match against Spurs when the Spaniard's prone buttocks proved too much of a temptation. Lamps had to have a quick feel of Torres' bum. Manager Andre Villas Boas had already had a slightly less tender slap [.

As Newcastle United's season continued to unfurl, and the winning streak continued to lengthen, accusations leveled at NUFC was that they hadn't played 'anyone' yet with 'anyone' presumed to be the top four (this despite Newcastle playing both Arsenal and Spurs and coming away undefeated).

Date: Tuesday Jan 18 2011
Ground: Shawe View
Comp: Evostik Div One North (step four)
Match: Trafford 1 Mossley AFC 4 HT: 0-1

Shaw 86 : Oates 34, Dennis 70, Egan 78, Fish 90

ATT: 112
Additional: Entrance £7.00, Programme £1.50

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